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Have you tried following someone and it says "pending"?

In theory this is meant to only happen when someone has manual follower approval switched on. If they have it switched on, there will be a padlock 🔒 next to their name on their profile.

However, "pending" may also happen if servers are overwhelmed and your request is in a long queue, or there is some kind of technical fault.

Don't assume someone is rejecting your follow if you see "pending". They might not even know it is happening.

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LIZZIE CROWDAGGER

@feditips yeah I have this issue sometimes :/

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David Harlan

@feditips

a lot of times I see one that's said pending for a while, I withdraw the follow request and follow again, and it's immediately accepted. This mostly happened with follows I made around the huge waves of #TwitterMigration

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The Comfortable Spot Podcast

@feditips What about trying to follow someone back and getting "This action is not allowed"?

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@smartfilming :mastodon:

@feditips Definitely had this happen two times when trying to follow someone on the Mastodon SDF Org server.

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Travler

@feditips

Saw that on Twitter

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Edge

@feditips in my case, it also happens when my internet connection flickers.🤷‍♀️

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Philip Ives

@feditips thanks. This is useful.

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RachelA

@feditips good to know

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Miranda Whiting

@feditips Thanks for this. Is there anywhere which tells me what pending requests I have? I remembered one, which I resubmitted and is now fine, but I'm pretty sure there were others.

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Tom Barkas

@feditips @trendless Happened a lot the other week when thousands were moving here

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@feditips It happens also, when you try to follow a person on an instance that has blocked your server.

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John Caveney woke is me🛠️

@feditips thanks, I got confused by it the other day, asked a question and was put right by many kind people!

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Christina7531

@feditips I saw that a lot about a month ago but not as much recently

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ClipperChip :nsa: :cia: :fbi:

@feditips Server instances can also limit followers from other instances to that there always be a follow request instead of a direct follow.

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ShrikeTron🔠💉x5

@feditips Following can have a lot of "network" lag. Makes it difficult to simultaneously add person to List.

Mastodon really should decouple List requires Following.

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Rich Felker

@feditips Is there a place to look at your pending follows you might not be aware are still pending so you can retry them?

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Brian Grinter

@feditips @donmelton thanks, I’ve found removing the follow request then refollowing sometimes fixes it

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Tracy

@feditips How about if you see "pending" on a dating app?
Definite rejection.
Unless they have so much "business", you might want to inquire about any possible cost.
NOT a good sign.
Just a thought! 🤔

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Mark Gardner

@feditips This is one of my pet peeves about the #fediverse

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Auntie Pha

@feditips I tried to accept a pending and it failed.

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